Well the parent comment is simply arguing against nuclear, and given that no civilization before 1940 had to think about nuclear, it’s not a bad take...

Despite being somewhat of a subjective political position, Its not crazy to think late era Obama administration was more competent than Trump administration.

In the past, bad leader + nuclear = Chernobyl

So you completely missed his point, (s)he’s not saying “times are bad now”, they are saying “I see now that times are not good enough”